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ZTE has launched their first consumer smartphone website.ZTE is the World’s 4th largest mobile phone manufacturer. Until recently the company has been providing operators with mobile phones to brand as their own, now they're also bringing them to the consumer branded as ZTE. To support this business strategy Red Snapper was asked to develop their UK consumer website. The site design expands upon conventions made popular by other mobile phone companies by introducing strong imagery more commonly found in other consumer sectors. Red Snapper also developed the site with a 'responsive design', whereby content is repurposed into an optimal format for users on mobile devices. ZTE is one of the first within their sector to provide a mobile specific website.

The Children’s Trust has launched a new online service for the parents of children with acquired brain injury (ABI) coinciding with Brain Injury Week (14th - 20th May).The Brain Injury Hub draws on the specialist clinical expertise that has been developed at The Children’s Trust and the personal experience and suggestions of parents of children with ABI.The new site offers comprehensive, fully-referenced information about childhood brain injury, including: being in hospital, returning to school, parent and sibling wellbeing and much more:

• Information Standard approved (Department of Health quality mark for reliable sources of information)
• Easy-read versions of all materials
• Bookmark pages to read later
• Discussion forum for parents to pose questions and share experiences
• Dedicated information for teachers

Red Snapper was responsible for the design and development of the Brain Injury Hub. We continue to work closely with the communications team at The children's Trust.

The London Evening Standard has launched a new networking club and website dedicated to the capital's SME community.Evening Standard Business Connections contains SME content produced by the award winning business team at the newspaper. Members gain access to unique business focussed web content and forums as well as face to face networking meetings with some top line speakers including:

• Tony Wang, General Manager of Twitter UK
• Julie Meyer, CEO of Ariadne Capital
• Paul Deighton, CEO, LOCOG
• Doug Richards, Entrepreneur & Technical Investor
• Kanya King, MBE & founder of MOBO Awards

Working closely with the Evening Standard, we designed and developed the launch website within 5 weeks.

Staynearby is a new way to find somewhere to go, something to do and a place to stay nearby. Browse the comprehensive list of UK attractions, events and destinations and find a place to stay nearby choosing from a selection of hotels, B&Bs, holiday homes and spare rooms.Working closely with Staynearby, we developed all aspects of the project including design, mapping, functionality and the management system.

Mirena, manufactured and promoted by Bayer is one of four different types of Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC). Mirena is an Intrauterine System (IUS) which provides up to five years of contraceptive cover. Bayer wanted to develop an international, multilingual website for women and healthcare professionals with the aim of producing a comprehensive and educational resource for women, to enable them to learn about LARCs; the IUS, IUD, injection and implant. Working for the Global Brand Team in Berlin, we designed, developed and delivered all aspects of this educational website. We researched the subject area and creating and editing the content; developing the language and SEO strategy; designing and programming the website; producing illustrations, animations and video sequences.

A refresh and update of the visual style of the Homes and Property website to reflect their new focus on property sales and lettings was required so we came up with a fantastic new header and footer area for the existing, well established site. We implemented an intuitive drop down navigation that allows users to quickly jump to relevant areas of the site and allows the site editors to feature articles, products and sections easily. The new footer is much more useful and contains links to well used areas of the site along with allowing you to search the editorial areas of the site. Working alongside Homeflow, who provide the property search for the site we came up with some very nice ways to allow the user to access the search from anywhere on the site quickly and easily.

Avelox (moxifloxacin) is a fourth generation synthetic fluoroquinolone antibiotic agent from Bayer which is indicated for people suffering from certain types of pneumonia, sinusitis and chronic bronchitis. Working with the Global Brand Team in Berlin, we designed and developed this international website, Avelox.com with content for Healthcare professionals and the pubic. We researched the subject area, creating and editing the content; designing and programming the website; developing the SEO strategy; producing graphs and diagrams and converting complex data into easy to use and accessible tables.

The success of the Women's Running magazine prompted publisher Wild Bunch Media to launch Men's Running. The new site is a growing community and a fantastic resource for men who run or, as they term them, "Runners with balls". It also has a great video section with a great, custom built, commenting engine to compliment the fantastic forum, groups and running route planning services

Continually working to expand our repertoire, we are currently working on numerous internal projects. These include, but not limited to, a fresh and updated front end for our hugely powerful and stable Content management system Builder, a 'white label' event system, a new fully featured forum engine and some really positive movement towards building ourselves a new website!

Earlier in the year our MD became a father for the fist time with a wonderful baby girl. Now Cathy our Senior Account Manager has just given birth to her first, a baby boy. Best wished from the Red Snapper team!

Who Do I vote For? turned out to be a success. With over 25000 completed surveys the final results show very little variation between the parties. If you would like a full question by question breakdown of survey results please contact: sales@redsnapper.net

Red Snapper has produced the Who Do I Vote For? poll for the past three general elections. Intended to be unbiased, fun and informative, the poll invites people to see which party best represents their views and ideologies. Take the survey yourself – you may well be surprised by the result.

Red Snapper has been appointed by a global bank to develop a bespoke event and delegate management application for the marketing division of one of its major regions. The roll out this application and our support service will result in a transformation in the way that events and delegates are managed; higher attendance and significantly reduced admin.

Red Snapper originally launched the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) website in 2006, working closing with the association since then on regular site developments. This month the site enjoyed a significant update, being widened to incorporate various advertising formats alongside a refresh of the masthead design.

With close to 2,000 people registering to the social network in the first week, the launch of the Women's Running is off to great start. The forum community is friendly and welcoming, and members are starting to create running diaries, plot routes on an interactive map, form groups with other members, and much more. Read our case study

2009 marked the 60th anniversary of Thames & Hudson, the well known specialist book publisher which was founded by Walter and Eva Neurath. Seven years ago, Red Snapper was appointed to design and develop the first website for Thames and Hudson and during that time the site has grown to include over 3000 titles. While the initial website stood the test of time well, it was decided the 60th anniversary deserved a completely new design and so Red Snapper was appointed once again. Read our case study

Red Snapper won the pitch to develop a new social network for women runners, to provide a vibrant and inclusive community where they can share their passion for running. The website is due to launch in early 2010, to complement the launch of the magazine “Women’s Running”).

Red Snapper has started working with this major Pharmaceutical company on the design and development of a multi lingual international web presence for an established brand. We are also working together to produce a womens health informational site and a web presence for a second of their large brands

Red Snapper won the pitch to design and build the new Association of Online Publishers website. Read our case study“We're delighted. The principle aim of the redesigned site is to provide our members with a more dynamic, effective, and usable resource; we’ve delivered a much more intuitive, user-friendly site, since we have the most discerning audience to please: UK online publishers!“ Liz Somerville, Acting Director of AOP

In 2009 Tomy Yujin Europe was acquired by Tomy and so Gacha International was born. and a new showcase website was required. Gacha International successfully markets a range of vending products and vending machines. The vending products are aimed at children and young people alike and they encompass a wide range of famous brand names including Disney Pixar Cars, Winnie The Pooh, Pokemon and Sponge Bob Square Pants.

Red Snapper was recently asked by Ethnic Minority Foundation to design and develop ForcedMarriage.net. Read our case study"We are delighted with the work Red Snapper has done. Creating a website on the subject of Forced Marriage was a challenge by any standards. But Red Snapper managed to produce a stylish, modern and user-friendly site that has been widely praised by our stakeholders and partners.” Christina Julios, Director of Policy and External Affairs, Ethnic Minority Foundation

Red Snapper was asked to reflect the consolidation of Camco Clean Energy and present a unified brand through a single, multi-lingual web presence; bringing all regional sub web sites under the same umbrella brand and design, whilst still allowing for flexibility of localised, market focused content. Read our case study